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...these charges, the Administration last week released a 32-page summary of its evidence, prepared by the State Department and based in part on secret Pentagon and CIA reports. The document charged that since 1975, the Soviets and their allies have launched at least 432 chemical attacks in Indochina and Afghanistan, killing more than 10,000 people. The chemicals involved include nerve gas, mustard gas, lewisite and mycotoxins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rain of Terror in Asia | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...press briefing, Deputy Secretary of State Walter Stoessel said that the summary was based on examinations of physical evidence, including environmental samples, as well as the testimony of eyewitnesses to yellow-rain attacks, journalists and doctors treating refugees. Said Stoessel of the use of these chemicals in Indochina: "Thousands have been killed or severely injured. Thousands have also been driven from their homeland by the use of these agents." As for Afghanistan, he added, Soviet forces have used a variety of lethal and nonlethal chemical weapons against rebel forces since the invasion in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rain of Terror in Asia | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

Sauter: Let's talk about substantive issue. I meet with my Vietnamese friends and they say. "The Left has not learned a lesson from Vietnam in this country"....I'm willing to say that most people who marched against the war in Indochina were well-intentioned, most, not all....but what lessons have they drawn? Have they drawn the lesson that their actions affected millions of lives. Harvard student actions have affected millions of lives. They are indirectly responsible, but responsible nonetheless, for millions of dead Cambodians and for hundreds of thousands of people in internment camps in Vietnam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ideas and Emotions Behind the Protests | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

Kissinger's attention should be called to the fact that we became militarily involved in Indochina during the Eisenhower Administration, not, as he implies, under Kennedy. We began sending arms, equipment and military advisers to South Viet Nam in the 1950s. The first U.S. soldiers were killed by the Viet Cong in 1959. Thomas J. Carraher Norfolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1982 | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...visit to Peking, writes Kissinger, "became the last normal diplomatic enterprise before Watergate engulfed us. "He returned to Peking nine months later, in November 1973. By then, a U.S. Congress that was increasingly challenging the authority of the President had voted to forbid all American military action in Indochina. With this prohibition, Kissinger notes, "our principal bargaining leverage was lost." As a result, an American proposal for a cease-fire in Cambodia was aborted-the Khmer Rouge had no need to negotiate for something that had already been handed to them by Congress-and Chou Enlai, who had agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPARTEE WITH MAO | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

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